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AMPAIGN TRACTS. 



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Piiblislied by 
THE BROOKLYN DAILY UNION 

jSTo- lO Front Street. 



FACTS WHICH ARE HOW HISTORY. 



GEBT. McCLELLAN'S FEIENDS AND 
FOREIGN INTEEVENTION. 

The following paragraphs from Lord Lyons' 
letter to his Government, dated "Washington, 
Nov. 17, 1S63, show to what depths of infamy 
Gen. McClellan's friends were able to sink 
themselves when he was yet in the army. The 
men who would then have accepted foreign in- 
tervention, had they dared, now offer an uncon- 
ditional armistice to the Rebels in arms : 

On the following morning, however, intelli- 
gence arrived from Washington which dashed 
the rising hopes of the Conservatives. It was 
announced that General McCIellan had been 
dismissed from the command of the Army of 
the Potomac, and ordered to repair to his home ; 
that he had, in fact, been removed altogether 
from active service. T/).e General had been re- 
garded as the representative of the conserveitive 
prineiple in, the army. Support of him had 
been made one of the articles of the conserva- 
tive electoral programme. * * * 
The irritation of the Conservatives at New York 
was certainly very great ; it seemed, however, 
to be not unmixed with consternation and des- 
pondency. 

Several of the leaders of the Democratic 
party sought interviews with me, both before 
and after the arrival of the intelligence of 



Gen. McClellan's dismissal. The subject up- 
permost in their minds, while they were speak- 
ing to me, was naturally that of foreign me- 
diation between the North and South. Many 
of them seemed to think that this inediatio7i 
must come at last ; but they appeared to be 
very much afraid of its coming too soon. It 
was evident that they apprehended that a 
premature proposal of foreign intervention 
would afford the Radical paity a means of re- 
viving the violent war spirit, and of thus de- 
feating the peaceful plans of the Conservatives. 
They appeared to regard the present move- 
ment as peculiarly unfavorable for such an 
offer, and, indeed, to hold that it would be es- 
sential to the success of any proposal from 
abroad that it should be deferred until the 
control of the Executive Government should 
be in the hands of the Conservative party. 

I gave no opinion on the subject. I did not 
say whether or not I myself thought foreign in- 
tervention probable or advisable ; but I listened 
with attention to the accounts given me of the 
plans and hopes of the Conservative party. 

At THe BOTTOM I THOUGHT I PERCEIVED A 
DESIRE TO PUT AN END TO THE WA7!, EVEN 
AT THE RISK OF LOSING THE SOUTHERN STATES 
ALTOGETHER ; BUT IT WAS PLAIN THAT IT WAS 
NOT THOUGHT PRUDENT TO AVOW THIS DESIRE. 

Indeed, some hints of it, dropped betore the 
elections, were so ill received that a strong de- 
claration in the contrary sense was deemed ne- 
cessary by the Democratic leaders. 




At the present moment, tJ(ereforc, the chiefs of 
the Conservative party call loudly for a more 
vigorous prosecution of the war, and reproach 
the Government with slackness as well as with 
want of success in its military measures. 



THE REBELLION WITHOUT 

EXCUSE. 

On the 14th November, 1860, Hon. A. H. 

Stephens spokfe thus against secession and 

treason : 

The first question that presents itself is. Shall 
the people of the South secede from the Union 
in consequence of the election of Mr. Lincoln 
to the Presidency of the United States ? My 
countrymen, I tell you frankly, candidly, and 
earnestly, that I do not think that they ought. 
In my judgment the election of no man, constitu- 
tionally chosen to that high office, is sufficient 
cause foi' any State to separate from the 
Union. 

He went still further and said : 

That this Government of our fathers, with 
all its defects, comes nearer the objects of all 
good Governments tJian any other on the face of 
the earth, is my settled conviction. 

Where wUl you go, following the sun in his 
circuit round the glol)e, to find a Government 
that better protects the liberties of its people, 
and secures to them the blessings that we enjoy ? 
I think that one of the evils that beset us is a 
surfeit of liberty, an exuberance of the price- 
less blessings for which we are ungrateful. 

Have not we at the South as well as the 
North grown great and happy under its opera- 
tion ? Has any part of the world ever shown 
such rapid progress in the development of 
wealth, and all the material resources of power 
and greatness, as the Southern States have 
under the General Government v -» * * * 
These [the civilization and institutions of Greece 
and Rome] were but tlie fruits of their forms 
of government, the matrix from which their 
grand development sj^rang ; and when once the 
institutions of a people have been destroyed, 
tJiere is no earthly power that can bring back the 
Promethean spark to kindle them here again 
any more than in that ancient land of eloijuence, 
poetry and song. A7id if we shall in an evil hour 
rashly pidl down and destroy those institutions 
which the patriotic band of our fathers labored 
so long and so hard to build up, and which 
have done so mucli for us and tlie world, loho 
can venture the j)redictlon that similar results 
icill not ensue f Let us avoid it if we can. 
* * * * 



■ THE FOUNDATION OF THE 
EEBELLION. 

Lured by the tempting offer of the Vice- 
Presidency, urged by ambition, and carried 
away by the action of his associates, Mr. Ste- 
phens surrendered his convictions, defied his 
fears, and courted the dangers he had foretold, 
and thus defended the sham Government for 
which he had deserted the " best on the face of 
the earth :" 

The new Constitution has put at rest forever 
all the agitating questions relating to our pecu- 
liar institutions — African slavery as it exists 
among us — the proper status of the negro in 
our form of civilization. This was the immedi- 
ate cause of the late rupture and jJrasent revolu^ 
tion. * * * TheprevaUing ideas entertained 
by him (Jefferson) and most of the leading states- 
men at the time of the formation of the old Con- 
stitution were, that the enslavement of the African 
was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was 
wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politi- 
cally. It was an evil they knew not well how 
to deal with ; but the general opinion of the 
men of that day was that, somehow or other, 
in the order of Providence, the institution would 
be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though 
not incorporated in the Constitution, was the 
prevailing idea at the time. The Constitution, 
it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the 
institution while it should last, and hence no 
argument can be j ustly used against the con- 
stitutional guarantees thus secured, because of 
the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, 
however, were fun damen tally im'ong. Th ey rested 
upon the assumption of the equality of races, 
lids ims an error. It was a sandy foundation, 
and the idea of a Government built upon it — 
when the " storm came and the wind blew, it 
fclV 

Our new Qovernment is foxinded upon exactly 
the opposite ideas; its foundations arc laid, its 
corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the 
negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, 
stibordination to the superior race, is his na- 
tural and moral conclition. Jhis our new Qov- 
ernment, is the first in the history of the world 
based upon this great physical, philosophical, 
and moral truth. 



A REBEL'S ESTIMATE OF 
McCLELLAN. 

A rebel mail of about fifty letters was cap- 
tured near Shepardstown, Va., a few days ago, 
most of the letters being from officers and sol- 
diers in Early's command. The following is an 
extract from a letter among them from one Col^ 



Dunham of New York, wlio early in the war 
attempted to raise a regiment for the Union, 
but having faUed to effect his object, resigned 
and went over to the rebels. In his letter, dated 
August 17, he alludes to his treason and boasts 
of it. The letter is directed to one Bishop, of 
Brooklyn, and abounds in the low, coarse slang 
which the rebels and rebel-sympathizing writers 
use so freely when speaking of President Lin- 
coln, and in threats of the ferocily with which 
the war is to be waged against the North. 

The following extract show 3 the deep interest 
which the rebel leaders have in McCleUan and 
the democracy of the present day : 

But let me tell you, my dear boy, you may 
pray for peace until hell freezes over — that is, 
peace with the restoration of the Union — and 
there will be no peace. Mars is relentless and 
Concordia is deaf. There can be no jDeace until 
Black Republicans and Abolitionists are silenced 
and reduced to an equality, or, at least, a level, 
with the niggers they claim as their equals. 
Let your Chicago Convention nominate Mr. 
Davis for the Presidency — and I know the ma- 
jority of the delegates would vote for him if 
they dared — and on his election you can and 
will have peace. Of course you wiE not do 
this. The kext best thing you can do is 

TO NOMINATE AND ELECT McClELLAN. The 
South don't regard him as a military genius, as 
the northern press would make the people be- 
lieve they do ; but they believe him to be what 
was once called A northern man with 
SOUTHERN PRINCIPLES. His election, my dear 
boy, would do much to conciliate the South. 

We are SATISFIED THAT IP YOU ELECT HIM, 
THE RIGHT OP SECESSION AND INDEPENDENCE 
"WOULD BE ACKNOWLEDGED, AND THAT TERMS 
OF RECONSTRUCTION WOULD BE OFFERED, 
WHICH WE MIGHT WITH HONOR ACCEPT. I 
don't say, however, THAT THEY WOULD BE 
ACCEPTED. 

It is my opinion, as it is the opinion of Presi- 
dent Davis and the leading men of the South, 
that the war must continiie until one side or 
the other is subjugated. The more assistance 
your democrats render, indirectly, the sooner 
we shall be able to vanquish the abolition 
hordes, and restore the Union. It may seem 
paradoxical, but I assure you, my boy, we are 
fighting for Union, fighting to place the old 
United States under one government ; and we 
shall do it in such a way that no abolition ba- 
boon will ever again get at the head of it. 

That is, they are fighting to " subjugate " the 
North, and make Jeff. Davis President of the 
Union, and they count upon McCleUan's election 
to help them. 



THE RECOGNIZED ALLIES OF THE 
EEBELS. 

Jefferson Da^^s says : 

Tell Mr. Lincoln from me that I shall be 
pleased at any time to receive proposals of peace 
upon the basis of our independence. It will 
BE USELESS TO APPROACH ME WITH ANT 
OTHER. 

The Atlanta Register says : 

The noble band of patriots led by ex-Presi- 
dent Pierce, Seymour of Connecticut, Wood of 
New York, and Vallandigham of Ohio, are 
doing us indirect service. They are worthy of 
our respect and sympathy. We can gain noth- 
ing by denouncing tliem. We raay lose much 
by presenting a hostile front to their peace 
movement. Live with them we never 
WILL ! But in the meanwhile, if they will use 
the ballot-box against Lincoln whUe we use the 
cartridge-box, each side will be a helper to the 
other, and both co-operate in accomplishing the 
greatest work this continent has witnessed. 

Lieut. Maury, of the Rebel Navy, writing to 
the London Times, says : 

There are dissensions among the people of 
the North. There is already a Peace par- 
ty THERE. All the embarrassments with which 
that party can surround Mr. Lincoln, and all 
the difficulties it can throw in the way of the 
war party in the North, operate directly as so 
much aid and comfort for the South. 

The Richmond Enquirer says : 

The Yankee Democracy is arousing itself and 
preparing for a new struggle for the " spoils," 
or, as they call it, the cause of Constitutional 
liberty. 'These Democrats are beginning to 
raise a peace platform for the Presidential elec- 
tion. It is seriously to be hoped that these 
champions of Constitutional freedom will be 
sustained in the manner they require, namely, 
BY CONTINUED AND SEVERE REVERSES IN THE 
FIELD, and it is the first and most urgent diity 
of our countrymen so to help and sustain the 
Democratic party. It is nothing to us which 
of these factions devours the spoils, or whether 
they recover their Constitutional liberty, which 
they have wantonly thrown away in the pur- 
suit of Southern conquest and plunder. But 
IT IS OP the utmost importance to us to 

AID IN STIMULATING DISAFFECTION AMONG 

THE Yankees against their own govern- 
ment, AND IN DEMORALIZING AND DISINTE- 
GRATING SOCIETY IN THAT GOD-ABANDONED 
COUNTRY. We can do this only in one way, 
namely, in thrashing their armies and carrying 
the war to their own firesides. This is the 
only way we can help them. In this sense, 

AND TO THIS EXTENT, THE DEMOCRATS ARE 

TRULY OUR ALLIES. The Democrats can do ab- 



solutely nothing without the South, and they 
cannot bring themselves to admit the thought 
that we would refuse to unite with them in a 
grand universal campaign for the election of a 
Democratic President with a peace platform 
and the Constitution as it is. Here is their 

plan — AN AKMISTIOE, AND THEN " INVITING 

OUR CO-OPERATION." During the armistice they 
hope the " calm, majestic voice of reason and a 
common Christianity" — quoting from Senator 
Wall's speech — " will do considerable." In 
vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird. 
We are 'ware of them and will watch them 
well. Our views go a little further than theirs. 
We hope so to disorganize and disinte- 
grate SOCIETY IN THEIR COUNTRY, THAT THEY 



WILL RUSH INTO ARMED REYOLUTION AN1> 

ANARCHY. We Spit upou their platform. 

The Richmond Dispatch says : 

If the whole Yankee race should fall down in 
the dust to-morrow, and pray us to be their 
masters, we would spurn them even as slaves I 
Our only wish is to be separated from 
THEM FINALLY AND FOREVER — never to See the 
face of them again — never to hear the voice of 
another Yankee on the south side of the Poto- 
mac, or the nortli — to have no traffic and no in- 
tercourse of any description whatever with, 
them. We are fighting for separation, 
and we will have it if it cost the life of every 
man in the Confederate States. 



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